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MacLampsX brings light strings to your desktop.
Inspired by Tiger Technologies's Holiday Lights, MacLampsX allows you to decorate for Christmas, or any other holiday with user-creatable bulbs, as well as a small set of defaults.
Version 2.0 brings lots of new features like the ability to add bigger bulbs and to play music.
Happy Holidays!
Inspired by Tiger Technologies's Holiday Lights, MacLampsX allows you to decorate for Christmas, or any other holiday with user-creatable bulbs, as well as a small set of defaults.
Version 2.0 brings lots of new features like the ability to add bigger bulbs and to play music.
Happy Holidays!
What's New
Version 2.0b:
- Updated Screen Saver plugin to work under Mac OS X 10.6 (screen saver version 1.0.1)
- Added a welcome dialog
- Added a screensaver, along with screensaver mode in MacLampsX
- Added a basic music player
- Added random flashing mode
- Added support for multiple displays
- Sides/corners of the screen can now be configured to be empty
- Changed data handling for bulbs to reduce memory usage
- Bulbs can now be dragged from the list, even in detail mode
- The bulb list is now sorted alphabetically (as opposed to randomly)
- Fixed a bug which caused opacity preferences to be ignored
- MacLampsX now stops animation calls when you switch to another user account
- Reorganized preferences to give more flexibility and control
- Bulbs can now have a custom "preview image" that they draw in the list - useful for spacer bulbs, or bulbs bigger than 32x32
- Bulbs now support irregular dimensions and more than two states
- Began preparation for localization. Many English strings are now localizable, though there is still a lot left to do
Version 2.0b:
- Updated Screen Saver plugin to work under Mac OS X 10.6 (screen saver version 1.0.1)
- Added a welcome dialog
- Added a screensaver, along with screensaver mode in MacLampsX
- Added a basic music player
- Added random flashing mode
- Added support for multiple displays
- Sides/corners of the screen can now more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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MacLampsX brings light strings to your desktop.
Inspired by Tiger Technologies's Holiday Lights, MacLampsX allows you to decorate for Christmas, or any other holiday with user-creatable bulbs, as well as a small set of defaults.
Version 2.0 brings lots of new features like the ability to add bigger bulbs and to play music.
Happy Holidays!
Inspired by Tiger Technologies's Holiday Lights, MacLampsX allows you to decorate for Christmas, or any other holiday with user-creatable bulbs, as well as a small set of defaults.
Version 2.0 brings lots of new features like the ability to add bigger bulbs and to play music.
Happy Holidays!
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This is ofcourse a beta, but I just wanted to say that I couldn't get the screen saver to work with snow without disabling "Enter Screen Saver mode only for the MacLampsX ScreenSaver", and I tried a lot of stuff.
It also doesn't work with "Spaces". I can move it from one space to another by dragging the preferences window from one space to another.
Still, really good app :) And brings a good christmas spirit :)
Happy christmas to everyone. Or "Go' jul" as we say in Norway :)
1. it's not actually a beta - just a quick update to make the SS work with snow leopard.
2. unfortunately snow leopard changed the way the prefs for current SS are stored, and I don't have the code to MLX (where that issue would need to be fixed) in a place where I can make another release easily right now. So you'll just have to leave that box unchecked in SL for now. Sorry!
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Steven Goodheart reviewed on 19 Dec 2009
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Also, for future reference, it's good to know that tip that the admins posted - just remove the .bz2 file extension and open the d/l file directly as a dmg.
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Also, the previous versions of MacLamps .dmg files will no longer open on my Intel iMac, using Leopard 10.5.1.
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If you're still having trouble with the older versions, could you get in touch with me via email (use the form on my website - I don't want to post my email here and get spammed any more than I already am) so that we can troubleshoot? Thanks!
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If I double click it and allow Apple's opener to try, it then becomes maclampsx.dmg.bz2.cpgz.
If I double click that, it changes to maclampsx.dmg2.bz2. And so on and so on.
If I use stuffit expander on the D/L, it opens to what appears to be a proper dmg file, but then I'll get a warning that says "The following disk images failed to mount"
Reason - no mountable file systems.
I have never seen this type of behavior before.
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Furthermore, for the user who requests more bulb packs - I'm an engineer and a software developer, not an artist. Once and a while I get inspired to draw bulbs, but not very often. I've got some stuff in the pipeline to help folks out creating bulbs, and I'm hosting bulb files on my site so they're easier to find, but I'm not going to be able to do most of the artwork. I'd love it if you'd be willing to contribute. Really.
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I have tried downloading from here and the developer's original site. I am using OS X 4.11 on my PowerPC iBook G4.
Thanks